Engine-bed.



PATENTED JAN. 9, 1906.

F. W. SALMON. ENGINE BED.

A v l UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIoE.

FREDERICK W. SALMON, OF BURLINGTON, IOWA, ASSIGNOR TO MURRAY IRON WORKS COMPANY, OF BURLINGTON, IOWA.

ENGINE-BED.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 9, 1906.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK W. SAL- MON, a resident of Burlington, in the county of Des Moines and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Engine-Beds; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in engine-beds, the object of the invention being to provide a bed constructed to Withstand all strain, prevent vibration, and insure the perfect operation of the engine, and, further, to provide a bed of neat and attractive appearance, compact in structure, and a vast improvement on anything of this character heretofore known.

With these objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in side elevation, illustrating my im-- provements. Fig. 2 is a top plan view; and Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6 are views in cross-section on the lines a a, b b, c c, and d (1, respectively, of Fig. 2.

My improved bed is of one integral casting, having a base 1 made with a flange 2 all around its edge to prevent esca e of lubricant, which may be recovered an again used after being cleaned. Extending longitudinally of base 1, near one edge thereof, is a heavy web 3, recessed near one end, as shown at 4, to receive the crank-shaft bearing and inclining from the recess downward to the end of the base, as clearly shown. At the other end of the web it merges into and is integral with a guide or barrel 5, located at one side of the web, the base 1, below the barrel, being enlarged, as shown, at 6 to meet the barrel, said enlargement being integral with both the base and barrel and inclines downward toward the opposite end of the bed, as shown at 7. Both ends of the guide or barrel 5 are enlarged, as shown at 8 and 9, the enlargement 9 being of sufficient strength to withstand all strain of the connecting-rod and closing the end of the barrel with the excep tion of an elongated opening 10.

As above stated, the base 1, web 3, barrel 5, enlargement 6, and all other parts described constitute one integral casting which is not only strong and durable and constructed to withstand all strainand stress which may come upon it, but is neat and attractive in design and a vast improvement in the art.

Slight changes might be made in the general form and arrangement of the parts described without departing from my invention, and hence I would have it understood that I do not restrict myself to the precise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such slight changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fully described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A single casting comprising a continuous horizontal base, a longitudinal web located to one side of the longitudinal axis of the base and extending approximately from end to end of the base and provided at one end with a recess for a shaft-bearing, an enlargement rising from said horizontal base and disposed at one side of and integral with said web, and a guide-barrel upon said enlargement, said guide-barrel inte ral with the said enlargement and with the ongitudinal web and the longitudinal web rising upwardly from the base above the axis of the guide-barrel and above the axis of the shaftbearing.

2. A single casting comprising a continuous base, a longitudinal web located to one side of the longitudinal axis of the base and terminating at one end in a solid enlargement extending laterally from said web to a oint approximating the opposite side of the ase and a guide-barrel integral with said enlargement at the opposite side of the base from the Web, the end of the web farthest removed from said enlargement having a recess for the reception of a bearing for a crankshaft, said longitudinal web extending upwardly from the base and beyond the axis of the guide-barrel and above the axis of the bearing of the crank-shaft.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FREDK. W. SALMON.

Witnesses:

(bus. 0. CLARK, MARY FAWOEII. 

